install on USB flash memory

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 14 14:54:51 UTC 2007


On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:47:03PM +0200, Todorov @ Paladin wrote:
> Karel Miklav ????????????:
> > Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > I think this has been discussed before.  The problem is that FreeBSD's
> > > bootloader doesn't support booting off of such devices, thus you
> > > need to use GRUB or another bootloader.
> >
> > But the guy from tutorial is doing that, and I made such a stick too.
> > And it boots on ThinkPad X40 perfectly.
> 
> What is the USB protocol version on the X40. My previous laptop R40e had
> USB 1.1 interfaces. Maybe it is the USB version....

The X40 supports USB 2.0, but is seems highly unlikely that's the issue.

-- Brooks
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